"Ted" <tedorn44@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Mar 19, 10:53 am, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS"
> <xeton2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Another waste of taxpayer money. Kansas should tell them - ILLEGALS
HAVE
>> NO RIGHTS. case closed
>>
>> http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/536522.html
>>
>> Posted on Tue, Mar. 18, 2008 02:53 PM
>> Kansas targets employers who don't pay immigrant workers
>> By ROXANA HEGEMAN
>> Associated Press
>>
>> WICHITA, Kan. | The Kansas Department of Labor is working closely with
a
>> Hispanic advocacy group to file wage claims against employers who
refuse
>> to pay workers, regardless of their immigration status.
>>
>> Undo***ented workers -- often fearful of de****tation if they
complaining
>> of unpaid wages -- have long been reluctant to re****t labor abuses to
>> authorities.
>>
>> But more immigrants have been emboldened by a Kansas Supreme Court
ruling
>> last year that illegal immigrants like other workers were entitled to
>> compensation under a state law that doubles the amount of money an
>> employee can collect if an employer deliberately withholds wages.
>>
>> So many workers have complained about labor abuses to the Sunflower
>> Community Action group that Hispanic leaders asked Kansas Labor
Secretary
>> Jim Garner to attend a recent meeting in Wichita over the practice,
said
>> Emira Palacios, coordinator for the Wichita advocacy group.
>>
>> About 300 people showed up at that meeting. Garner appointed a Spanish-
>> speaking liaison, Joyce Romero, to work with Hispanic employees to help
>> them formally file claims with the state against abusive employers.
>>
>> "We want to help them. We are doing what our mission tells us to do,"
>> said Megan Ingmire, spokeswoman for the Department of Labor. "We want
to
>> help them because they shouldn't have wages held against them."
>>
>> (snip)
>
> Where is the ****ing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents?
>
> ted
****ing?
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